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  • From: Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl>
  • To: Greg Grossmeier <greg AT grossmeier.net>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Metadata scraper roadmap
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:40:36 +0100

Oh come on!

That simply is not good enough.

We CC-affiliates / open activists need to be able to do our work. I raised
this question because I do work for Europeana, The European version of the
DPLA, but 5 years ahead. they were instrumental and the first adopter of the
Public Domain Mark. Europeana works with 2600+ cultural institutions and has
about 5 million works PD/CC0 marked. Now when one of those institutions mails
me and asked me why there is no extra metadata on PDM pages coming of
Europeana, I need to be able to say that there is possibly a script blocker
on the client side and that Europeana and CreativeCommons.org are functioning
properly, see this page for more information (no page or documentation to be
found...). When I cannot do that I cannot do my job. When I cannot do my job
I cannot convince these institutions of the merit of CC licensing or PD
marking. When I cannot do that they will be less likely to use the tools.
That is bad for our global access to culture. (I use myself as an example,
this could happen to anyone who wants to promote CC).

We all want more open content and correct rights labelling right? I need to
be able to rely on that infrastructure of CC.org to be able to do my job in
this.

It is completely absurd that you cannot get your act together and provide us
with a decent technological infrastructure and support to help convince the
world that a) open content is a good way to go and b) rights labelling is
important and c) (most importantly) we have their backs in that.

Also, where is Dan Mills in all of this? He's been on the job for like two
months now right? Why is it that he hasn't even introduced himself on this
list yet? I hope he consider the licenses and their backing technology as
part of the product of CC..

I think it is unbelievable that you can laconically state that you wish you
had better answers…


On Feb 27, 2013, at 18:15 , Greg Grossmeier <greg AT grossmeier.net> wrote:

> <quote name="Maarten Zeinstra" date="2013-02-27" time="12:18:05 +0100">
>> I was wondering if there is a roadmap for the development of the
>> metadata scraper of the deed pages.
>
> This is on a roadmap of some sorts; I can't remember the specific
> timeline right now.
>
>> As of now it only support RDFa, maybe we want to add other formats as
>> well?
>
> That is the idea, indeed.
>
>> Also I could find very little documentation about the workings of the
>> scraper directed at non-developers. Where can I point to when no
>> scraped information shows up because of a script blocker?
>
> Nothing at this time :/
>
>
> Wish I had better answers,
>
> Greg
>
>
> PS: As of Feb 19th, I now work for the Wikimedia Foundation, so my time
> on these type of issues will be radically lower now.
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066672.html
>
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